abstract：BACKGROUND:In the past decade, the range of contraceptives available has increased dramatically. There are limited data on the factors that determine women's choices on contraceptive alternatives or what factors providers consider most important when recommending contraceptive products to women. OBJECTIVES:Our objecti...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Knox SA,Viney RC,Street DJ,Haas MR,Fiebig DG,Weisberg E,Bateson D

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Economic factors are a limiting factor toward the implementation of many health programmes and interventions. Economic evaluation has a great potential to contribute toward cost-effective healthcare delivery in South Africa. Little is known about the characteristics and quality of health economic (including ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Gavaza P,Rascati KL,Oladapo AO,Khoza S

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Assessment of health state and health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) are limited by a child's age and cognitive ability. Parent-proxy reports are known to differ from children's reports. Simultaneous assessment using a parent-child dyad is an alternative approach. OBJECTIVE:Our objective was to assess the...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Ungar WJ,Boydell K,Dell S,Feldman BM,Marshall D,Willan A,Wright JG

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bipolar disorder has a significant impact upon a patient's quality of life, imposing a considerable economic burden on the individual, family members and society as a whole. Several medications are indicated for the acute treatment of mania and depression associated with bipolar disorder as well as for maint...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Ekman M,Lindgren P,Miltenburger C,Meier G,Locklear JC,Chatterton ML

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over 200 million people have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) worldwide. The number of disease-year equivalents and deaths attributable to COPD are high. Guidelines for the pharmacological treatment of the disease recommend an individualized step-up approach in which treatment is intensified when...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Rutten-van Mölken MP,Goossens LM

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) invited the manufacturer of golimumab (Schering-Plough/Centocor) to submit evidence for the clinical and cost effectiveness of this drug for the treatment of active and progressive psoriatic arthritis (PsA) in patients who have responded inadequately to ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Yang H,Craig D,Epstein D,Bojke L,Light K,Bruce IN,Sculpher M,Woolacott N

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the Netherlands, decisions about the reimbursement of new pharmaceuticals are based on cost effectiveness, as well as therapeutic value and budget impact. Since 1 January 2005, drug manufacturers are formally required to substantiate the cost effectiveness of drugs that have therapeutic added value in com...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Hoomans T,Severens JL,van der Roer N,Delwel GO

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rufinamide (Inovelon®), a triazole derivative, is an oral antiepileptic drug approved in the EU as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) in patients aged ≥4 years. The efficacy of oral rufinamide as adjunctive therapy in patients with LGS uncontrolled on one to t...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： McCormack PL

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:External genital warts (EGW) are a sexually transmitted infection caused by various strains of human papillomavirus (HPV). Several studies have described the direct and indirect costs of EGW, while others have reported on the burden of EGW in terms of the impact on the quality of life (QOL) of patients. The arrival of...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Raymakers AJ,Sadatsafavi M,Marra F,Marra CA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) invited the manufacturer of denosumab (Amgen Inc., UK) to submit evidence for the clinical and cost effectiveness of denosumab for the prevention of fragility fractures in post-menopausal women, as part of the Institute's single technology appraisal (STA...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Scotland G,Waugh N,Royle P,McNamee P,Henderson R,Hollick R

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Candidaemia and other forms of invasive candidiasis (C/IC) are serious and costly events for hospitalized patients, particularly those in the ICU. Both fluconazole and the echinocandins are recommended as first-line therapy for C/IC. Resource use and cost considerations are important in selecting appropriate...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Reboli AC,Rotstein C,Kett DH,Maschio M,Cartier S,Chambers R,Tarallo M

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a progressive inflammatory lung disease associated with increasing morbidity and mortality and an economic burden that stretches beyond the patient to healthcare systems. Avoiding exacerbations and subsequent hospitalizations is an important clinical aim and ca...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Mittmann N,Hernandez P,Mellström C,Brannman L,Welte T

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is one of the main tools of economic evaluation. Every CEA is based on a number of assumptions, some of which may not be accurate, introducing uncertainty. Sensitivity analysis (SA) formalizes ways to measure and evaluate this uncertainty. Specific sources of uncertainty in CEA have b...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Jain R,Grabner M,Onukwugha E

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic review of dementia cost-of-illness (COI) studies in the US and Canada was conducted to explore the policy-making relevance of these studies. MEDLINE, CINAHL, EconLit, AMED and the Cochrane Library were searched from inception to March 2010 for English-language COI articles. Content analysis was used to ex...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Oremus M,Aguilar SC

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total hip and knee replacements (THR and TKR) are high-risk settings for venous thromboembolism (VTE). This review summarizes the cost effectiveness of VTE prophylaxis regimens for THR and TKR. We searched MEDLINE (January 1997 to October 2009), EMBASE (January 1997 to June 2009) and the UK NHS Economic Evaluation Dat...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Kapoor A,Chuang W,Radhakrishnan N,Smith KJ,Berlowitz D,Segal JB,Katz JN,Losina E

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Darunavir boosted by low-dose ritonavir (DRV/r), at a daily dose of 600/100 mg twice a day (bid), has been shown to be superior to alternative highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) regimens for the management of treatment-experienced, HIV-infected adults in the phase IIb POWER trials and the phase III TITAN tri...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Mauskopf J,Annemans L,Hill AM,Smets E

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Given the association between CD4 cell counts and HIV-related morbidity/mortality, new antiretroviral therapies could potentially lower the direct costs of HIV care by raising CD4 cell counts. OBJECTIVES:To predict the effects of the ritonavir-boosted, HIV protease inhibitor (PI) darunavir on the direct cos...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Hill AM,Gebo K,Hemmett L,Löthgren M,Allegri G,Smets E

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an inevitable tension between robust reimbursement processes and providing speedy access to new and novel technologies, given uncertainties about key pieces of evidence and subsequent concerns regarding their overall efficiency. The public perception of these treatments as 'breakthrough', combined with substa...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： McCabe CJ,Stafinski T,Edlin R,Menon D,Banff AED Summit.

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease of the CNS, typically striking adults during the primary productive time of their life. The symptoms of MS can restrict the individual's physical activity and income-earning ability, resulting in a major financial burden on the patient, family, health system and society. This syste...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Naci H,Fleurence R,Birt J,Duhig A

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asian healthcare systems are very diverse, representing cultures, political systems and economies from more than 30 countries with varying histories. Despite the diversity in the region, there has been enormous growth in health economics and outcomes research since the beginning of the 21st century. Whilst Japan has s...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Kamae I

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are few empirical studies on the valuation of health profiles that describe the short-term fluctuations of chronic diseases. OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to value chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) health profiles, which describe the health of these patients over the course of 1 year from a so...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Rutten-van Mölken MP,Hoogendoorn M,Lamers LM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have not previously reported the indirect cost burden of multiple sclerosis (MS) from an employer perspective. To compare annual indirect costs between privately insured US employees with MS and matched employee controls. A retrospective analysis of a privately insured claims database containing disability dat...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Ivanova JI,Birnbaum HG,Samuels S,Davis M,Phillips AL,Meletiche D

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To review and critically evaluate published cost-utility analyses (CUAs) pertaining to pharmaceuticals for the past 3 decades. We examined data from the Tufts Medical Center Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Registry (www.cearegistry.org), which contains detailed information on English-language CUAs and their ratios (in $US...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Neumann PJ,Fang CH,Cohen JT

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A cost-effectiveness analysis of oral capecitabine versus intravenous bolus 5-fluorouracil/l-leucovorin (FU/LV) as adjuvant therapy in patients with stage 3 colon cancer was performed from a Japanese healthcare payer perspective. METHODS:Adjuvant therapy comprised 24 weeks of treatment with either oral capec...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Shiroiwa T,Fukuda T,Shimozuma K,Ohashi Y,Tsutani K

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most countries have healthcare resource constraints and it is easy to identify new health technologies as an area in need of resource management, particularly given that new health technologies usually increase rather than save costs. Resource constraints are even more noticeable in Asia than in other regions, with a ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Yang BM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Within the framework of economic evaluations, the transferability of utility scores between jurisdictions remains unclear. The EQ-5D is a generic instrument for measuring health-related quality of life in economic evaluations, which can be used for comparing utility scores across countries. At present, the E...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Knies S,Evers SM,Candel MJ,Severens JL,Ament AJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Randomized controlled trials provide unbiased estimates of treatment effect through reducing the attribution of observed differences in outcome to the play of chance or the treatment of interest. Issues in the design of randomized trials may lead to a dilution or magnification of treatment effect when compared with cl...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Freemantle N,Hessel F

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Published estimates for the treatment costs of breast cancer vary widely in methodology, perspective, patient populations and time horizon. We systematically summarized and analysed the published literature on per-patient costs of breast cancer, and highlight the perspectives, populations studied, time horizons and fu...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Campbell JD,Ramsey SD

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are insufficient resources in the UK to fund all new technologies and new indications approved by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). Diverting funding from existing sources will have a detrimental effect on the provision of other priority services. The UK Office of Fair Trading (OF...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Godman B,Haycox A,Schwabe U,Joppi R,Garattini S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Which costs and benefits to consider in economic evaluations of healthcare interventions remains an area of much controversy. Unrelated medical costs in life-years gained is an important cost category that is normally ignored in economic evaluations, irrespective of the perspective chosen for the analysis. National gu...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Rappange DR,van Baal PH,van Exel NJ,Feenstra TL,Rutten FF,Brouwer WB

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cost-effectiveness analyses worldwide assume that the price of any single drug increases with inflation. New guidance from the Pharmaceutical Management Agency in New Zealand suggests that, when it is known that a generic drug will be available in the near future, a best estimate of the lower price of the ge...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Hoyle M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the policy relevance and growing volume of research measuring individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) for health-related goods and services, meta-analysis provides a potentially rich set of tools for answering key questions about this research area. In particular, when taken as a whole, what does the existing empi...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Van Houtven G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are regularly used in health economics to elicit preferences for healthcare products and programmes. There is growing recognition that DCEs can provide more than information on preferences and, in particular, they have the potential to contribute more directly to outcome measurement ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Lancsar E,Louviere J

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Of 1 346 700 total deaths each year in the US, an estimated 440 100 are smoking related, making it the leading preventable cause of premature death in the US. Despite the health and economic benefits of smoking cessation being well documented, reimbursement coverage for smoking cessation therapies is general...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Howard P,Knight C,Boler A,Baker C

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Invasive fungal infections in neutropenic patients treated for haematological malignancies are associated with a high mortality rate and, therefore, require early treatment. As the diagnosis of invasive fungal infections is difficult, effective antifungal prophylaxis is desirable. So far, fluconazole has bee...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： de Vries R,Daenen S,Tolley K,Glasmacher A,Prentice A,Howells S,Christopherson H,de Jong-van den Berg LT,Postma MJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A wide variety of oral antiplatelet trials have been carried out, and a large number of cost-effectiveness estimates based on them have been published. OBJECTIVE:To assess the cost effectiveness of oral antiplatelet treatments in the prevention of cardiovascular events. METHODS:A comprehensive literature s...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Heeg B,Damen J,Van Hout B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore whether the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) takes account of concerns other than just incremental cost effectiveness in commissioning healthcare services. METHOD:A stated preference binary choice experiment was used to explore the preferences of members of NICE's Appra...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Tappenden P,Brazier J,Ratcliffe J,Chilcott J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Intensive insulin therapy improves glycosylated haemoglobin (Hb(A1C)) levels and delays the onset of long-term diabetes-related complications. Current treatment guidelines recommend maintaining a glycosylated haemoglobin (Hb(A1C)) of < or = 7% in patients with type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus. Ho...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Grima DT,Thompson MF,Sauriol L

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent randomised trials have demonstrated a statistically significant effect of trastuzumab on disease-free survival when used as adjuvant therapy for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 protein (HER2)-positive resectable early stage breast cancer, with a treatment course lasting either 9 or 52 weeks. ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Millar JA,Millward MJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To estimate the direct and indirect costs of morbidity and mortality attributable to alcohol consumption in Germany from a societal perspective in 2002. METHODS:Using the concept of attributable risks and the prevalence-based approach, age- and gender-specific alcohol-attributable fractions for morbidity and morta...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Konnopka A,König HH

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00